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Wilson was born in Paignton, Devon, where his father, Theodore Cameron Wilson, was vicar of Christchurch. His mother was Annie Smith, possibly an American; his grandfather, the Reverend Theodore Percival Wilson, had been a popular novelist. He was the fourth of six children; the youngest brother became a successful actor under the name of Charles Cameron, and one sister, Marjorie, was a published poet. [more][Less]

George, Lord Lyttelton, was born in 1709, at Hagley, in Worcestershire. He was educated at Eton and at Christchurch, Oxford, entered Parliament, became a Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1757 he withdrew from politics, was raised to the peerage, and spent the last eighteen years of his life in lettered ease. [more][Less]

Joseph William Gleeson White (Christchurch 1851–1898), often known as Gleeson White, was an English writer on art. He was educated at Christ Church School and afterward became a member of the Art Workers Guild. He moved to New York City in 1890 where he conducted the Art Amateur (1891–92). He returned to England in 1893. [more][Less]

Christchurch, New Zealand
Three years after two large earthquakes devastated central Christchurch, the city is experiencing a rebirth with creativity and wit — thanks to the ingenuity of its hardy residents — and is welcoming tourists back again. Though much of the central city has yet to be rebuilt, entrepreneurs and volunteers are finding surprising ways to make temporary use of empty lots and bring life back to the downtown. The Gap Filler program, begun a couple of months after the first quake in September 2010 and expanded after a more destructive second quake in February 2011, has created an open-air performance space made of blue pallets, a dance floor with coin-operated music and lights, and even a nine-hole mini-golf course in vacant lots across the city. The Greening the Rubble campaign has since the 2010 quake been planting temporary gardens on the sites of demolished buildings. To replace the badly damaged 19th-century ChristChurch Cathedral, a magnificent transitional church by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban opened in August with sturdy cardboard tubes for the roof. Businesses are also trickling back downtown. One bar, built inside shipping containers, has a name that encapsulates the spirit of the entire city: Revival. [more][Less]

Theodore Percival Cameron Wilson (April 25, 1888 - March 23, 1918), was an English poet and novelist of World War I, best known for his poem Magpies in Picardy.[1]
Wilson was born in Paignton, Devon, where his father, Theodore Cameron Wilson, was vicar of Christchurch. His mother was Annie Smith, possibly an American; his grandfather, the Reverend Theodore Percival Wilson, had been a popular novelist. He was the fourth of six children; the youngest brother became a successful actor under the name of Charles Cameron, and one sister, Marjorie, was a published poet. [more][Less]

Theodore Percival Cameron Wilson (April 25, 1888 - March 23, 1918), was an English poet and novelist of World War I, best known for his poem Magpies in Picardy.[1]
Wilson was born in Paignton, Devon, where his father, Theodore Cameron Wilson, was vicar of Christchurch. His mother was Annie Smith, possibly an American; his grandfather, the Reverend Theodore Percival Wilson, had been a popular novelist. He was the fourth of six children; the youngest brother became a successful actor under the name of Charles Cameron, and one sister, Marjorie, was a published poet. [more][Less]

Avon is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate. It was created for the 1861 general election and existed until 1996. It was represented by 13 Members of Parliament and was held by Independents, Liberal Party or Labour Party representativesThe electorate was in Christchurch, New Zealand, named after the Avon River. For the 1887 by-election, polling booths were in Riccarton and Papanui.[1] For the 1887 general election, polling booths were in Papanui, Bright's Road, Spreydon and New Brighton.[2] For the 1890 election, polling booths were in Papanui, Richmond, Belfast, Ohoka and Clarkville.[3]. [more][Less]

The Hon. William Pember Reeves (10 February 1857 – 16 May 1932) was a New Zealand politician, historian and poet who promoted social reform.Reeves's parents were William Reeves, who was a journalist and politician, and Ellen Reeves, née Pember. They had migrated from Britain to Canterbury Province in 1857, arriving three weeks before he was born.He was educated at a private "prep" school in Christchurch, the local high school and, from 1867 to 1874, Christ's College Grammar School.[1] Before entering politics, Reeves was a lawyer and journalist. He was editor of the Canterbury Times in 1885 and the Lyttelton Times (1889–1891). [more][Less]

Henry St. John, Who Became Viscount Bolingbroke In 1712, Was Born On
The 1st Of October, 1678, At The Family Manor Of Battersea, Then A
Country Village. His Grandfather, Sir Walter St. John, Lived There
With His Wife Johanna,--Daughter To Cromwell's Chief Justice, Oliver
St. John,--In One Home With The Child's Father, Henry St. John, Who
Was Married To The Second Daughter Of Robert Rich, Earl Of Warwick.
The Child's Grandfather, A Man Of High Character, Lived To The Age
Of Eighty-Seven; And His Father, More A Man Of What Is Miscalled
Pleasure, To The Age Of Ninety. It Was Chiefly By His Grandfather
And Grandmother That The Education Of Young Henry St. John Was Cared
For. Simon Patrick, Afterwards Bishop Of Ely, Was For Some Years A
Chaplain In Their Home. By His Grandfather And Grandmother The
Child's Religious Education May Have Been Too Formally Cared For. A
Passage In Bolingbroke's Letter To Pope Shows That He Was Required
As A Child To Read Works Of A Divine Who "Made A Hundred And
Nineteen Sermons On The Hundred And Nineteenth Psalm."
After Education At Eton And Christchurch, Henry St. John Travelled
Abroad, And In The Year 1700 He Married, At The Age Of Twenty-Two,
Frances, Daughter And Co-Heiress Of Sir Henry Winchescomb, A
Berkshire Baronet. She Had Much Property, And More In Prospect. [more][Less]

What happens when US Intelligence Agents take the law into their own blood-soaked hands. Steve Kohlhagen’s taut novel, told at breakneck speed, is a thrilling ride into terror, vengeance and moral ambiguity